RECORD Sport tipster MR FIXIT previews tonight's matches at the World Cup and reckons Germany are well placed to get off to a flier against Portugal.

IT has been a World Cup full of great games and goals – and now we welcome the tournament’s most consistent team to the big stage.

Germany’s opener with Portugal tonight in Salvador is their 100th game in the finals – the first nation to hit the landmark – and they’re 6-5 with Coral to celebrate with a victory.

This is expected to be a tough test for Joachim Low’s men but I’m backing them to get off to a flyer as usual.

Germany have won their last six World Cup openers and lost just one of 18 group games – to Serbia in 2010.

In stark contrast, Portugal have triumphed in one of their last six at the finals – and that was against North Korea four years ago.

They are possibly over-reliant on Cristiano Ronaldo and an interesting Opta stat points out the Real Madrid star has netted just two goals at the finals from 48 attempts on goals.

Portugal will hope he has his shooting boots on against Germany and Ronaldo is 5-1 at McBookie and Ladbrokes to score first and 8-5 to net at any time.

Germany netted more goals (36) than any other team in qualifying but have picked only one out-and-out striker in Miroslav Klose.

The 36-year-old needs one goal to equal Brazilian star Ronaldo’s finals record of 15 and is 19-10 to notch it tonight.

He may be the only hitman but Klose isn’t a guaranteed starter and if he isn’t picked look at Bayern Munich’s Thomas Muller to net at 40-17 with 888sport.

This clash is primed for both teams to score and that pays 4-5 at McBookie and William Hill. There should also be goals in the other Group G clash between Ghana and USA.

Ghana were a penalty away from reaching the semi-finals in 2010 and qualified well – even if they lack quality in some defensive areas.

Former Sunderland striker Asamoah Gyan will be up top on his own and is 11-2 with McBookie and others to bag the opening goal.

Ghana have beaten the Americans 2-1 in two previous finals meetings and I’m on them at 13-8 with Paddy Power to complete the hat-trick.

Jurgen Klinsmann’s men are 21-10 at Coral and could pay for the strange decision to drop record scorer Landon Donovan. That leaves them with Aron Johannsson, Jozy Altidore and Chris Wondolowski – all better than Jason but not a patch on Landon!

Today’s other game is Iran v Nigeria in Group F and this could buck the trend as a low scorer.

Not much is expected of Iran even with Carlos Queiroz in charge but they should avoid embarrassment against a functional Nigeria side.

Nigeria should edge it and are 5-4 with Paddy Power and bet365 to do so. Take Emmanuel Emenike to score at 23-10 with Paddy Power.

Star Bet

ENGLAND are 4-5 second favourites with McBookie to qualify from Group D despite losing to Italy.